Programme
(provisional and subject to changes!)
(provisional and subject to changes!)
Note: 60-minute slots are 50-minute talks with 10 minutes for questions.
30-minute slots are 25-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions.
Tuesday August 26
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.00 Lecture 1: Post-critically finite polynomials: Dynamics and combinatorics (Rempe)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break.
11.30 - 12.30 Lecture 2: The Speiser class (Bergweiler)
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Lecture 3: Quasiconformal maps (Mukundan)
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00 Lecture 4: Teichmüller spaces and quadratic differentials (Hubbard)
17.00 - 18.00 Drinks reception
Wednesday August 27
9.30 - 10.30 Lecture 5: Post-singularly finite (PSF) entire functions: Dynamics and combinatorics (Reinke)
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00 Research talk: Martí-Pete - On the dimension of the boundaries of attracting basins of entire maps
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Lecture 6: Thurston's theorem for polynomials and rational maps (Reinke)
15.00 - 16.00 Lecture 7: Thurston theory for PSF entire function (Bogdanov)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30 Lecture 8: Thurston iteration (Prochorov)
Thursday August 28
9.30 - 10.30 Research talk: Bogdanov - Infinite dimensional Thurston theory
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00 Research talk: Mukundan - tbc
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Lecture 9: Finite-type maps (Epstein)
15.00 - 15.30 Research talk: Münch - Expanding rational expanding Thurston maps to R^3
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30 Research talk: Glynn - Boundary stratifications of Hurwitz spaces
16.30 - 17.30 Research talk: Prochorov - Thurston theory for general finite type maps
19.00 Conference Dinner - The Laureate Restaurant, Hyatt Regency Hotel Manchester, 55 Booth St W. (The hotel is a short walk from the Alan Turing Building.)
Friday August 29
9.30 - 10.30 Lecture 10: Proof of Thurston's theorem for polynomials and rational maps (Shishikura)
10.30 - 11.30 Lecture 11: Proof of Thurston's theorem for exponential maps (Shishikura)
11.30 - 12.15 Break
12.15 - 13.15 Research talk: Schleicher - tbc
13.15 - 14.15 Research talk: Dudko (via Zoom) - The near-degenerate regime in transcendental dynamics